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Sidorova I.V., Popov A.S., Zimin A.A. [Centon texts at the level of syntactic models (syntactic centon)] World of Science. Series: Sociology, Philology, Cultural Studies, 2026, Vol. 17, No. 3. Available at: https://sfk-mn.ru/PDF/23FLSK326.pdf (in Russian). DOI: 10.15862/23FLSK326

Centon texts at the level of syntactic models (syntactic centon)

Sidorova Inna Vladimirovna
Michurinsk State Agrarian University, Michurinsk, Russia
E-mail: sidorova.innavladimirovna@yandex.ru
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Popov Alexander Sergeevich
Michurinsk State Agrarian University, Michurinsk, Russia
E-mail: aspopov111@mail.ru
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Zimin Arseny Alexandrovich
Michurinsk State Agrarian University, Michurinsk, Russia
E-mail: arsenyzimin51@gmail.com

Abstract. In modern linguistics and literary studies, research devoted to various manifestations of intertextuality as one of the most important mechanisms for organizing a literary text occupies a special place. Traditionally, scholars have focused their attention on studying quotations, reminiscences, allusions, precedent texts, and other ways of incorporating «foreign words» into the structure of a work. However, cases in which the object of borrowing is not the lexical composition of the original work, but its syntactic organization, have been studied much less. It is precisely this phenomenon that allows us to speak of the existence of a syntactic cento — a special type of intertextuality based on the reproduction of the structural model of someone else’s statement, with a complete or partial change in its verbal content.

The article examines the theoretical foundations of the syntactic cento as an independent philological phenomenon and traces the history of the development of the concept of «cento» from ancient literature to the present day. The main approaches of Russian researchers to understanding intertextuality, stylistics, and poetic syntax are analyzed. Special attention is paid to the concepts of M.M. Bakhtin, Yu.N. Tynyanov, I.V. Arnold, N.A. Fateeva, and M.L. Gasparov, whose ideas make it possible to view syntactic structures as carriers of cultural memory and stable artistic models.

Based on an analysis of works of Russian literature from the 19th–20th centuries, the main ways in which the syntactic centon are used are identified, its structural features are defined, and the mechanisms for preserving the intonational and compositional framework of the original text when the lexical content is replaced are revealed. Special attention is paid to comparative studies of the works of A.S. Pushkin, M.Y. Lermontov, N.V. Gogol, V.V. Nabokov, A.A. Blok, I.L. Selvinsky, and other authors, which demonstrate various forms of syntactic centonization.

Keywords: syntactic cento; intertextuality; syntactic model; parody; text formation; reception; genre memory

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